AM-1248 is a drug which acts as a moderately potent agonist

Agonist

An agonist is a chemical that binds to a receptor of a cell and triggers a response by that cell. Agonists often mimic the action of a naturally occurring substance...

 for both the cannabinoid receptor

Cannabinoid receptor

The cannabinoid receptors are a class of cell membrane receptors under the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily. As is typical of G protein-coupled receptors, the cannabinoid receptors contain seven transmembrane spanning domains...

s CB₁ and CB₂, but with some dispute between sources over its exact potency and selectivity. Replacing the 3-(1-naphthoyl) group found in many indole derived cannabinoid ligands, with an adamant

Adamantane

Adamantane is a colorless, crystalline chemical compound with a camphor-like odor. With a formula C10H16, it is a cycloalkane and also the simplest diamondoid. Adamantane molecules consist of three cyclohexane rings arranged in the "armchair" configuration. It is unique in that it is both rigid...

oyl

Ketone

In organic chemistry, a ketone is an organic compound with the structure RCR', where R and R' can be a variety of atoms and groups of atoms. It features a carbonyl group bonded to two other carbon atoms. Many ketones are known and many are of great importance in industry and in biology...

 group, generally confers significant CB₂ selectivity, but reasonable CB₁ affinity and selectivity is retained when an N-methylpiperidin-2-ylmethyl substitution is used at the indole 1-position. The related compound 1-pentyl-3-(1-adamantoyl)indole

AB-001

AB-001 or 1-pentyl-3-indole is a designer drug which was found as an ingredient in synthetic cannabis smoking blends in Ireland in 2010 and Hungary in 2011...

 was identified as having been sold as a cannabinoid designer drug

Designer drug

Designer drug is a term used to describe drugs that are created to get around existing drug laws, usually by preparing analogs or derivatives of existing drugs by modifying their chemical structure to varying degrees, or less commonly by finding drugs with entirely different chemical structures...

 in Hungary in 2011, along with another synthetic cannabinoid AM-679

AM-679 (cannabinoid)

AM-679 is a drug which acts as a moderately potent agonist for the cannabinoid receptors, with a Ki of 13.5nM at CB1 and 49.5nM at CB2. AM-679 was one of the first 3-indole derivatives that was found to have significant cannabinoid receptor affinity, and while AM-679 itself has only modest affinity...

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